I’ve been getting rejected by Analog Magazine since the early 90s, the days of typewritten manuscripts and rejection slips on letterhead in self-addressed stamped envelopes. This month I finally got an acceptance, for my story Planetfall, a stand-alone chapter from my novel SPACESHIP DAYS. It won’t be out for a few months, but until then …
This was the year that last year’s time in quarantine began to pay off in publications and recognition. There were also rejections–lots of rejections. Ninety-one of them, so far. There are the pieces which were accepted: Grind Them Bones to Dust appeared in Meridian (Issue 45) Blue Clouds appeared in The Daily Drunk Skylark appeared …
The Pandemic Year was a slow time for publishing but a packed time for writing and scheming. I received about 89 rejections, and just three acceptances, but the first one was a doozy (!!). These are my stories that saw print in 2020: Young Americans (awarded first place in the Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction …
RUNNING BEAR What is the future of humanity? Can we survive our current dangerous flirtations with climate change and nuclear war? Do we even deserve to? RUNNING BEAR tells the story of an ambitious project to design a mission capable of transporting a thousand highly-skilled humans to colonize another solar system, carrying along an Archive of …
In 2019, I received 96 rejections from literary magazines. These eight stories were accepted and published: Always Running (Stain’d) Cities of the Future (Suspect Press) Satellite Presence (Retreat West) Running Bear (F(r)iction) Circle of Blazers (Chaleur) Cloudscape (The Ghost Story) Love and Death Under the Rain (Red Rock Review) Little Paw (Infinite Worlds) While I’m proud of all these publications, I’m not really …
A stand-alone excerpt from my novel-in-progress was just published in Infinite Worlds Magazine, and I couldn’t be happier with how great this publication looks. The issue is gorgeous, with slick, full-color, full-page bleed images of work from contemporary sci-fi and fantasy illustrations by an international roster of artists. I’m honored to have my work included. It’s …